On October 6, 2001 04:11 pm, Chris Lilley wrote:
> You have not shown that SVG is encumbered.
This document indicates that SVG is encumbered:
http://www.w3.org/2001/07/SVG10-IPR-statements.html
There are two possibilities:
1) The document is right, and W3C has endorsed a patent-encumbered
standard that blesses the right of participants in the creation of
that standard to collect royalties on the use of it
or
2) The document is wrong, and the acceptance of the SVG Recommendation
was premature because it is unfinished.
Which do you choose: patent encumbered or prematurely accepted? It is one
or the other. In either case the SVG recommendation is horribly flawed.
--
Daniel